Headline of today's lead Wall St. Journal editorial, which waxes at length about McDonald's CEO James Cantalupo's (fun fact: Cantalupo is the town in Italy from which comes the word "cantelope" - its melons were prized by the Romans for the delicacy and fragrance) rage at the just-released 11th Edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

The dictionary added the word "McJob", and defined it as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement."

The Wall St. Journal doesn't deny the accuracy of the definition; it only wants to point out that you gotta start somewhere, and that McDonald's should be applauded for providing a way to get a foot in the door of the job room. I agree. Sure, it's a shit job, but I've had many worse: a shit job DOES make you a better person, no matter how much you don't want to admit it to yourself: afterward, forever you rejoice that you don't have to do THAT ever again.

There is no difference between any of us and a person pushing the shopping cart around your city, just an accident or three. Jennifer Connolly's friends once remarked on how, when she would be out walking in New York, she'd nod toward some homeless person, slumped in a doorway, and say, "How do you know that's not Jesus?" Indeed.